Sabah vaccination rate to be doubled — Health director
KOTA KINABALU: Efforts are being made to double the vaccination rate at all vaccine administration centres (PPVs) in Sabah, especially at areas with high population, said state health director Dr Rose Nani Mudin.
She said as of July, Sabah had received more than 700,000 doses of vaccines.
“We are working on doubling the vaccine administration rate at all PPVs, particularly those with high population,” she said after paying a courtesy call on Head of State Tun Juhar Mahiruddin here yesterday.
Dr Rose said the drastic increase of Covid-19 cases in Sabah in the past two days was caused by the spread of the virus among prison inmates.
“When there are Covid-19 cases in prison, the Ministry of Health (MOH) will widen its screening to all inmates which results in a drastic increase in the number of cases.
“We are aware that prisons are confined spaces where infections could spread easily,” she said.
On vaccinating prison inmates, she said the Health Department was currently expediting the administration of vaccine to the people in Sabah.
“Our goal is to vaccinate as many people as fast as we can. However, we are still waiting for
the supply of vaccine as we need to give attention and priority to states with extremely high number of cases.”
On another note, Dr Rose urged Muslims to comply with the standard operating procedures
(SOPs) during Aidiladha today, including wearing face masks, maintaining physical distancing and washing hands regularly to protect themselves, their family and community against Covid-19.